There are lots of quilt names that reflect periods, or events, in our history. Some of them have different names for the same pattern, depending upon the peiod. For instance "Rocky Road to Dublin" became "Rocky Road to California" and later became "Drunkard's Path" during the period leading up to the Temperance movement. It is also called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul" for those who were more Biblically inclined. There are other patterns that go by these names too, but this is the one I am thinking about.
I have this one done by my great grandmother in blue and white from the mid 1800s. I spotted the same blue and white fabric in a quilt fragment in a museum in TX dating from the early days of the Republic of Texas. I believe mine was done in Missouri and brought to Oregon Territory when my great grandmother married my great grandfather.